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Marx and digital machines : alienation, technology, capitalism /

This book explores the fundamental contradiction at the heart of the digital environment: technology offers all manner of promises, yet habitually fails to deliver. This failure often arises from numerous problems: the proficiency of the technology or end-user, policy failure at various levels, or a...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Healy, Mike (Independent researcher) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : University of Westminster Press, 2020.
Colección:Critical, digital and social media studies series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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